 DESTINATION COLORADO
Colorado is one of the four states, along with New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, that meet at the Four Corners. Colorado is noted for its vivid landscape of mountains, plains, mesas, and canyons. Colorado is nicknamed the Centennial State because it was admitted to the Union as the 38th state in 1876, the centennial year.
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BENT'S OLD FORT
Bent's Old Fort is an 1833 fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado. William and Charles Bent, along with Ceran St. Vrain, built the fort to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and trappers for buffalo robes. For much of its 16-year history, the fort was the only major permanent settlement on the Santa Fe Trail ...
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CHAPEL ON THE ROCK
The Chapel on the Rock (officially, Saint Catherine of Siena's Chapel) is a popular tourist landmark in Allenspark, Colorado visited by thousands every year. The chapel is located on the grounds of the Saint Malo Retreat Center, the Catholic retreat center for the Archdiocese of Denver, near Mount Meeker. In 1999, Boulder County designated the chapel as a historic site ...
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CLIFF PALACE
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The Ancient Pueblo structure is located in Mesa Verde National Park, in the southwest corner of Colorado, home to the Ancestral Puebloans people. Cliff Palace contains 23 kivas (round sunken rooms of ceremonial importance), and 150 rooms. One kiva is partitioned by a series of walls with no doorways or other access portals ...
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COLORADO NATIONAL MONUMENT
Colorado National Monument (locally referred to as The Monument) is a part of the National Park Service near the city of Grand Junction, in western Colorado. Spectacular canyons cut deep into sandstone and even granite–gneiss–schist rock formations, in some areas. This is an area of semi-desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinion and juniper forests ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS
Colorado Springs' present downtown location, where General Palmer first founded the city, was partly due to Palmer's dislike of nearby rough-and-ready Colorado City (now called Old Colorado City) and its many saloons. Palmer ensured his new planned city stayed alcohol free by buying a huge tract of land to the east of Colorado City ...
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When Denver was founded in 1858, the city was little more than a dusty collection of buildings on a long, grassy plain with a few contorted cottonwood and willow trees on riverbanks. Denver today has over 200 parks, from small mini-parks all over the city to the giant 314 acre City Park. In addition, the city acquired land for mountain parks starting in the 1910s ...
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DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT
Dinosaur National Monument is a National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah. This park has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Abydosaurus ...
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GRAND JUNCTION
The City of Grand Junction is the largest city in western Colorado. Grand Junction serves as a major commercial and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide. The city is located along the Colorado River, where it receives the Gunnison River from the south. In recent years, several wineries have been established in the area as well ...
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LOVELAND PASS
Loveland Pass, elevation 11,990 ft above sea level, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado. It is located on the Continental Divide in the Front Range west of Denver. U.S. Route 6 traverses the pass; the twisty road is considered to be especially treacherous during the winter months. A steep, steady 6.7% grade, along with numerous hairpin turns ...
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MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles near the Four Corners and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by the Ancestral Puebloan people, sometimes called the Anasazi ...
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RED ROCKS PARK
Red Rocks Park is a mountain park in Jefferson County, Colorado, owned and maintained by the city of Denver as part of the Denver Mountain Parks system. The park is known for its very large red sandstone outcrops. Many of these rock formation within the park have names, from the mushroom-shaped Seat of Pluto to the inclined Cave of the Seven Ladders ...
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK
Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the north-central region of Colorado. It features majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments - from wooded forests to mountain tundra—and easy access to back-country trails and campsites. The park is located northwest of Boulder, in the Rockies ...
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TENMILE RANGE
The Tenmile Range is a mountain range in U.S. state of Colorado. The range is an extension of the Mosquito Range which is part of the Rocky Mountains. The two ranges are effectively the same range. They are split only by the Continental Divide. The Tenmile Range is on the west side of the divide, and the Mosquito on the east ...
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